Jeanette Winterson Quotes

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

Jeanette Winterson

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• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • You
  • Old

• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Men
  • Child
  • Fact

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Back
  • Argue

• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Lives

• I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • School
  • Business
  • English

• Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • God
  • Women
  • May

• You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Real
  • You
  • Problems

• We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • System
  • Criminal

• Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Think
  • Hunting

• Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Live
  • You
  • Yourself

• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Job
  • Career
  • Know

• One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • World
  • Chicago

• There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Job
  • House
  • Humble

• Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Religious
  • Spirit

• When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Editor

• During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Conversation

• Let’s listen again to Dencombe: 'Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.' I love the fact that he uses the word 'passion' and the word 'task' in the same sentence—the one so exalted, the other so commonplace. More than this, I love that he equates them. Our passion is our task. To follow the calling of art, to keep faith with it, to continue with your daily labors despite the frustrations, the distractions, and the other varieties of madness that will inevitably beset you—all this requires passion, but it also requires something else, something more down-to-earth. Call it steeliness. Call it persistence. Call it tenacity. Call it resilience. Call it devotion. Whatever you decide to call it, the ability to consecrate yourself to the daily task of art isn’t rooted in madness. As James knew, as Dencombe knew, it’s rooted in sanity.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Word
  • Passions

• I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Really
  • Making
  • Participate

• We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • Painting

• This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Time

• Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Marriage
  • Lifelong
  • Tattoos

• My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

  

  Jeanette Winterson